The phrase "a certain propensity" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific tendency or inclination that someone or something has.
Example: "She has a certain propensity for taking risks, which often leads to unexpected outcomes."
Alternatives: "a particular tendency" or "a specific inclination."
As regatta director for the next Cup, in San Francisco in 2013, he has teams to recruit, budgets to trim and new and old publics to convince as the competition shifts from graceful, traditional mono hulls to high-performance, adrenaline-guaranteed catamarans with wing sails and a certain propensity to flip.
He made the idea central to his discussion of social cooperation, arguing that the division of labour did not arise from human wisdom but was the "necessary, though very slow and gradual, consequence of a certain propensity in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility: the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another".
It has recently been reported that interacting protein pairs have a certain propensity to be regulated by the same miRNA [ 34].
Streptococci of the anginosus group can reside commensally in the human oral cavity but have a certain propensity to cause pharyngitis, bacteremia, and serious purulent infections in the deep neck and soft tissue and in internal organs such as the brain, lung, and liver (17 – 25 ).
In addition, however, the analyses suggest that the actual role of certain propensity factors may have been obscured in prior studies.
As we will see, some of them fail to satisfy countable additivity; for others (certain propensity interpretations) the status of at least some of the axioms is unclear.
The early prediction methods have assumed that there should be a good and simple correlation between certain propensities and linear epitope residues, and attempted to predict linear epitopes through one or two propensities.
Culture is a mighty force, he says, but it is the genetic bases for our behavior that "prompt the mind" of peoples toward certain propensities.
But slowly, slowly, videos and then DVDs came out, and … yes, in hindsight, it's a great film, but I just remember it as truly tremendous fun, with a UK crew of a certain age and propensity to laughter".
Following this, the result implied that the dynamic characteristics [ 14– 19] did have a certain relationship with crystallization propensity.
The results of this study were consistent with our previous studies [ 15– 19] and confirmed that the dynamic characteristics [ 14– 19] had a certain relationship with crystallization propensity of proteins.
